I use ICQ with ZoneAlarm all the time with no problem. You can mark a program as being
safe in ZoneAlarm and it
lets it use an port while keeping them closed to the outside world...
- Michael Smith, TeraTech, Inc http://www.teratech.com/
Mark Warrick wrote:
> Just an FYI - you can assign a range of ports within ICQ to use for
> connections and open up only those ports in the firewall.
>
> ---mark
>
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> Mark Warrick - Fusioneers.com
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jennifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 6:47 AM
> > To: CF-Community
> > Subject: RE: McAfee - Don't make the mistake I did...
> >
> >
> > At 08:37 AM 6/8/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> > >I'm getting Zonealarm today. McAfee Firewall is a royal piece of
> > dog crap.
> > >First, it drained my graphics memory (I'm sure you've seen apps
> > before that
> > >have odd affects on the GUI), secondly it never remembered the apps I
> > >trusted with net acces, thirdly, and this is a cardinal sin, the damn
> > >'Firewall Status' window kept reappearing even after I closed the window,
> > >and lastly, it absolutely would not let ICQ out.
> >
> > You might remember that while I was living in my best friend's house I
> > wasn't able to send files to you through ICQ and I had serious
> > issues even
> > getting messages out. I think we both had to send through the server to
> > talk to each other. That was a firewall issue and that firewall
> > was set up
> > by a professional security admin. He managed to get ICQ reasonably stable
> > but I couldn't connect directly to any linux or BSD users. ICQ is a mess.
> >
> > If I remember correctly, ICQ uses ranges of ports for each action and
> > selects randomly from that range of ports for each time that you do
> > something. That makes it almost impossible to predict which port will be
> > used to send messages. In order to allow free use of ICQ, you may as well
> > open every port in the firewall, which sorta defeats the purpose
> > of having
> > a firewall in the first place. It's one of the most problematic pieces of
> > software to use through a firewall. But we love it anyway.
> >
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> >
> >
> >
>
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